True crime stories & great mysteries

Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.


True crime stories

Lake Bodom murders mystery

Lake Bodom murders

On June 5th, 1960, four Finnish teenagers were attacked by an unknown assailant as they were camping next to Lake Bodom in southern Finland. The attack left three of the teenagers dead...


Murder of Sir Jack Drummond mystery

Murder of Sir Jack Drummond

When distinguished British biochemist Sir Jack Drummond was found dead on the roadside in France, no one expected this case will gain international coverage and still, after 60 years...


Zodiac killer mystery

Zodiac killer

The Zodiac killer is an unknown serial killer that was operating in California between 1968 and 1974. He killed 5 people and injured 2 more, at least those are confirmed victims of the Zodiac...


British detective thriller - The darkest secrets often hide in plain sight

One Lost Soul - British Thriller
British detective thriller - The darkest secrets often hide in plain sight


Great mysteries

The Somerton Man mystery

The Somerton Man

In 1948, a corpse of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia. The contents of the hidden pocket are puzzling the investigators to this day.


Mary Celeste mystery

Mary Celeste

In 1872, in the middle of the Atlantic, the ship Marie Celeste was found abandoned by the crew. The ship was undamaged, there were no signs of any kind of violence on board, and the...


Disappearance of Flight MH 370 mystery

Disappearance of Flight MH 370

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur and was heading for Beijing in China. About 40 minutes later, just when it was leaving the Kuala Lumpur air traffic control area...


Bermuda Triangle mystery

Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Northern Atlantic between the eastern coast of the United States and the Bermuda Islands, where some unexplained events took place since the 15th century...





Controversial theories

Moon landing conspiracy mystery

Moon landing conspiracy

After Apollo 11 was shown landing on the Moon on July 20th 1969 as the first manned mission, instantly the conspiracy theories popped up that it was just a staged show for the public and Russians.


Smolensk air crash mystery

Smolensk air crash

During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...


Glenn Miller disappearance mystery

Glenn Miller disappearance

Glenn Miller was one of the most recognizable band leaders in the swing era, his music is still admired today. At the peak of his career, he decided to join the World War 2 effort and...


9/11 attacks mystery

9/11 attacks

Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, starting one of the most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...



Unexplained phenomena

High Rock event mystery

High Rock event

In June 1966, four boys went to the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...


Ghost stories mystery

Ghost stories

Ghost stories are part of human culture - even in the Dark Ages, our predecessors believed that we’re not actually dying when our body dies. The spirit, the soul or some other form...


Beast of Gevaudan mystery

Beast of Gevaudan

Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...


Dyatlov Pass incident mystery

Dyatlov Pass incident

Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...



Crime and mystery movies

The Runaway Bus 1954 mystery movie

The Runaway Bus 1954

Heavy for puts the transport around London to a halt. Four passengers take a coach from London Airport, hoping to find a way to reach their destinations from some other airport. But some people had other plans.


North by Northwest 1959 mystery movie

North by Northwest 1959

Advertising executive is kidnapped and taken to secluded house, where strange men are trying to interrogate him. Later they are trying to kill him, but when he is picked up by the police there is no trace of the culprits.


Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse 2004 mystery movie

Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse 2004

Two police detectives has to team up to solve the mysterious events surrounding the monastery near the French-German border.


Evilenko 2004 mystery movie

Evilenko 2004

Loosely based on a hunt for Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.



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